Analyzing European Media Policy: Stakeholders and Advocacy Coalitions

Abstract

Media policy analysis seeks to ‘examine the ways in which policies in the field of communication are generated and implemented, as well as their repercussions or implications for the field of communication as a whole’ (Hansen et al., 1998, p. 67). Most critical academic media policy research is conducted ex post, tracing how certain policy outcomes came about, why certain policy outcomes rather than others became dominant, what parties were involved in the decision-making process, and how power was distributed among them (Fischer, 2003, 2008). As such, a rich tradition of research into media policy has developed, including analysis of media policies at the level of the EU.KeywordsPolicy ProcessMedium PolicyPolicy OutcomeStakeholder AnalysisPublic BroadcasterThese keywords were added by machine and not by the authors. This process is experimental and the keywords may be updated as the learning algorithm improves.